Kevin Mandia
CEO of Mandiant
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Oct 2, 2026
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In funding news, Armadin.
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Armadin, the AI security startup founded by Mandiant creator Kevin Mandia, has raised two hundred fifty-five point five million dollars in a Series B round at a valuation above two point five billion dollars.
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Andreessen Horowitz and Accel jointly led the round with Bain Capital Ventures and Redpoint joining as new investors alongside existing backers, including Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures.
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The raise comes about seven months after Armadin emerged from stealth and brings its total funding to roughly four hundred and forty-five million dollars.
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El precio comienza en dos dólares por millón de tokens de entrada y la ventana de salida se amplió a un millón de tokens frente a los sesenta y cuatro mil anteriores.
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En el frente del dinero para seguridad, Kevin Mandia, el CEO de FireEye, que se convirtió en el rostro de las grandes investigaciones de brechas de seguridad, recaudó doscientos cincuenta y cinco millones quinientos mil dólares con una valoración de dos punto cinco mil millones de dólares para una nueva empresa llamada Armadine.
DanielCORRESPONDENT
La propuesta es seguridad ofensiva impulsada por inteligencia artificial.
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Usar la misma velocidad automatizada que tienen hoy los atacantes para probar y reforzar las defensas antes de que los actores maliciosos lleguen primero.
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It brings Armadin's total funding to four hundred forty-five million dollars and a market value of more than two point five billion dollars since emerging from stealth seven months ago.
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Armadin, launched by cybersecurity company Mandiant's, Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia, raised one hundred eighty-nine point nine million dollars in a combined seed and Series A funding round in March.
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Mandia said the startup's rapid growth reflects its approach to going beyond identifying vulnerabilities.
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"Finding vulnerabilities is no longer difficult, as frontier models do it every day," he said.
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It brings Armadin's total funding to four hundred forty-five million dollars and a market value of more than two point five billion dollars since emerging from stealth seven months ago.
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Armadin, launched by cybersecurity company Mandiant's, Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia, raised one hundred eighty-nine point nine million dollars in a combined seed and Series A funding round in March.
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Mandia said the startup's rapid growth reflects its approach to going beyond identifying vulnerabilities.
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"Finding vulnerabilities is no longer difficult as frontier models do it every day," he said.
Bohdan VolyanyukGUEST
But he's also, he's former Marine, former ICE, like he's awesome.
Bohdan VolyanyukGUEST
So we're actually looking like it's, we can play on the margin against a lot of these other bigger competitors, you know, Kevin Mandia's company, Armadale, you know, like great.
Bohdan VolyanyukGUEST
Expo, there's a lot of companies in the space.
Bohdan VolyanyukGUEST
Again, fundamentally, we're not going to compete with them for the CISO of American Airlines or Coca-Cola.
Alex WilhelmHOST
Glad you're here, man.
Alex WilhelmHOST
And then we also have Kevin Mandia, CEO and co-founder over at Armiden, an AI cybersecurity startup that recently launched a massive white hat agentic attack called the, what do you call it, Kevin? Super Swarm? Hyper Swarm?
Kevin MandiaGUEST
You could call it that.
Kevin MandiaGUEST
We called it a hyper attack.
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Kevin MandiaGUEST
With the frontier labs and leveraging AI, you can kind of look under every rock and make a lot of bad things happen at a far faster speed.
Kevin MandiaGUEST
Really, you can't have a human in a loop on defense when you're targeted by AI.
Kevin MandiaGUEST
But again, a long-winded answer by Kevin Mandia.
Kevin MandiaGUEST
But I tell you this, I don't think the criminal element is going to waste cost attacking everyone all the time they're going to pick their targets and they're going to pick when and how and they're going to do it
Kevin ToyeHOST
Super cool.
Kevin ToyeHOST
And then episode 328, I just listened to with Kevin Mandia.
Kevin ToyeHOST
That's a great episode.
Kevin ToyeHOST
A lot of stuff right now about AI.
Kevin ToyeHOST
It's crazy, dude.
Kevin ToyeHOST
Jesus.
Kevin ToyeHOST
But anyway, so that Kevin Mandia, that's a good episode there.
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So I recommend those ones.
Stacy O'MaraGUEST
And this kind of draws on my point about being altruistic and doing what you can to lean forward and share with the community.
Stacy O'MaraGUEST
So I was at FireEye when SolarWinds occurred and Kevin Mandia decided to disclose that incident.
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Which is a
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case study.
Ava CabotHOST
Amazon and Qualcomm signed a multi-generation AI chip partnership this week, under which Amazon could buy up to $60 billion of Qualcomm's data center chips.
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Also this week, Kevin Mandia, who founded the security firm Mandian, joined Amazon's board.
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Page three of the memo had the busiest week of anybody.
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Taiwan Semi posted record August revenue of about $16 billion, up 53% year over year, and still can't keep pace with AI chip demand.
Nikhil GuptaGUEST
So these Ballistic Ventures is the number one VC firm for security specific thing.
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We have partners like TechLine, Barmak Niftar, Kevin Mandia and all.
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We are almost 200 people company.
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We have some of the top brands you can think of.